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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Dec 7, 2022

China's aviation comeback stokes tensions over access to Russian airspace

Western carriers haven't had access to Russia's air corridors since the Ukraine invasion triggered Western sanctions and retaliatory bans by Moscow.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 18, 2022

In China’s Xinjiang, 'COVID zero' lockdown hits 100 days

Residents in the country's dry and mountainous far west have just marked 100 days of living under some of the toughest, and most strictly enforced pandemic measures in the world.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 16, 2022

Japan’s wave of tourists sends hotels and taxis hunting for staff

To a certain extent, Japan's struggles mirror what the United States and Europe saw over the summer.
Nov 10, 2022

An Accommodation Facility with 100 Rooms Reduced its Workload by Approximately 2,200 Hours Per Year After Introducing Kotozna In-room

Kotozna (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, CEO Genri Goto, https://kotozna.com/en) In-room, a multilingual communication tool for accommodation facilities, allows guests to check facility guides and local sightseeing information in their own language, and communicate with staff from anywhere in the facility...
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 4, 2022

Egypt crushes at home the climate action it’s championing abroad

The difficulties foreign climate campaigners have endured offer a glimpse into the challenges local activists face in their home country on a daily basis.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 21, 2022

AI knows how much you’re willing to pay for flights before you do

Fed by data on everything from internet searches to COVID-19 outbreaks, computers are learning how everyday life influences demand for flights.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Oct 18, 2022

Japan has reopened. Instagrammers of the world, rejoice!

After years of watching Japan via their screens, eager tourists are ready to come over and document their own experiences. But are their vacation photos likely to all look the same?
JAPAN / History / Longform
Oct 10, 2022

Empire of steel: Where Japan’s railways stand after 150 years of evolution

Much has changed since the country's first railway line between Tokyo and Yokohama laid the foundation for a world-renowned network of trains to be created.
JAPAN / Explainer
Oct 9, 2022

What to expect as Japan opens back up to the world

While requirements for guided tours will be a thing of the past, proof of vaccination and mask-wearing etiquette will remain in place.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 7, 2022

U.S. to screen air travelers for Ebola during Uganda outbreak

Uganda has reported 63 confirmed and probable cases, with nearly half of the patients succumbing to the illness.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 5, 2022

Nursing shortage sparks bidding war as countries vie for talent

No nation is better prepared to help the world staff up its hospitals and clinics than the Philippines, the single biggest exporter of nurses.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 29, 2022

‘Tatami Time Machine Blues’: Kyoto slackers return for summer fun

Anime director Shingo Natsume seamlessly takes up the mantel to revisit the characters from 'The Tatami Galaxy' for new hijinks and a jaunt through time to retrieve a broken remote control.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Sep 29, 2022

Kyoto Experiment's new ways of moving forward

As the arts festival searches out sustainable solutions for funding, the keyword for the 2022 edition, 'new teku teku,' urges people to consider different forms of walking and movement.
BUSINESS
Sep 28, 2022

Japan’s businesses brace for long-awaited return of tourists

Spending by inbound travelers totaled u00a54.8 trillion in 2019. The question now is how much of that will come back, and how soon.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 23, 2022

Hong Kong ends hotel quarantine in biggest COVID shift yet

The changes come ahead of several high-profile events including an international banking summit and the iconic Rugby Sevens tournament.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 18, 2022

The U.K.’s masses descend on London to say goodbye

While it fits with a national stereotype, the orderly 30-hour, 7-km queue for the lying-in-state of Queen Elizabeth II is about more than just lining up.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 17, 2022

Is that legal? How scores of migrants to U.S. came to be shipped north.

Critics have made comparisons to the so-called Reverse Freedom Rides arranged by white segregationists in 1962 to retaliate against those protesting segregation in the South.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 12, 2022

Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen line to open on Sept. 23

The 66-kilometer line is the shortest of all shinkansen lines in the nation.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2022

Japan to ease tourism restrictions and raise daily arrival cap to 50,000

Starting Sept. 7, entry will be allowed for nonescorted visitors on package tours and the daily arrival cap will be raised to 50,000.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 20, 2022

Putin to allow inspectors to visit Russian-occupied nuclear plant

The French president's office said Moscow had 'reconsidered' a demand that the International Atomic Energy Agency travel through Russia to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear site.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 15, 2022

Congress forces Biden toward risky face-off with China over Taiwan

More hawkish moves by Congress could leave the U.S. president with a choice of whether he would rather look weak in Washington or in Beijing.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 9, 2022

Why India produces twice as many female airline pilots as the U.S.

Some of the answers may offer lessons for other countries and sectors striving to get more women into their ranks.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Aug 6, 2022

South Korea is scouting out the moon, with more missions to come

South Korea's lunar spacecraft, named Danuri, was launched from Florida on Thursday, setting out on a roundabout but fuel-efficient path that will have it arriving at the moon in mid-December.
Canada has a new prime minister with a very hard first assignment
Mark Carney, Canada's incoming prime minister (center), during a swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Friday. Carney has been sworn in as Canada's 24th prime minister, bringing the former central banker to power in the middle of an explosive trade war with the U.S.
Despite tough talk, economic woes may force Iran to bargain with Trump
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei looks on during a meeting with students in Tehran on Wednesday.
The U.S. says Japan has a 700% tariff on American rice. Is that the case?
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds up a piece of paper with information about tariff rates at the White House on Tuesday.
As Trump thaws ties, Russia has a new public enemy No. 1: Britain
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he arrives to attend a summit held at Lancaster House in central London on March 2.
Japanese superfans turn dental clinic into Ohtani mini-museum
Japanese dentist Yusuke Kamimura poses for a photograph in front of a private collection dedicated to MLB player Shohei Ohtani, inside his dental clinic in Koshigaya, north of Tokyo, on Feb. 28, 2025.
As pollen season peaks, Japan's allergy struggle emerges from hibernation
Urbanization is amplifying pollen-related allergies as grasslands and soft soil give way to concrete and asphalt.
Japan to get tough on businesses not taking heatstroke countermeasures
A construction site in Tokyo in July 2018. Businesses failing to take measures to prevent severe heatstroke among employees will be subjected to criminal punishment from June.
In a sea of Dodger Blue, Japanese superfan ready to cheer on the Cubs
Takuya “Moby” Okamoto after Game 5 of the 2016 World Series, which the Cubs went on to win in seven games to snap a 108-year drought
Drones, budgets and infighting: Taiwan's daunting defense challenges
Officials from Taiwan's Institute for National Defense and Security Research (INDSR), the Ministry of National Defense’s research arm, say the lessons from the Ukraine conflict are clear for the democratic island: drones and other autonomous systems are crucial for its defense.
How Upper House pressure led to Ishiba's stunning reversal on medical cost caps
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba attends an Upper House Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Monday.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Wealthier women in the prewar era had been the targets of various media-related health campaigns that mistakenly encouraged them to avoid everything from riding bicycles to reading novels when their monthly cycles came around.
Menstruation in Japan: Breaking the silence, slowly
By Tomoko Otake

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